The Ploughboy (6)

A very discouraged William Tyndale entered Hamburg in 1529. His manuscripts were lost in shipwreck. Months of hard work were gone. But a very helpful friend from Cambridge, Miles Coverdale, was there as well. He, too, would have a place in the history of the English Bible, but for now his place was to encourage the principal translator—Tyndale. Within ten months the first five books of the Bible were ready, once again, for publication. As with the English New Testament, the Pentateuch was...